Your word tells us that you give us endurance and encouragement and surely there are people praying with us who need to receive those things from you.

The Bible says that the things written in your Word are for our encouragement and to teach us by example. Your followers knew about hardship. They knew what it was like to have adversity as their constant companion. They endured beatings, floggings, being stoned and shipwrecked. They were falsely accused, rejected, despised and thrown into prison. They knew what it was like to be in physical pain… they knew what it felt like to be hungry, thirsty, persecuted, exhausted, and to even despair of life. Yet, they did more than just survive all they endured. Their times of discouragement did not overwhelm them or side track them from their mission or draw them away from you…the more adversity they faced, the closer…